Classic Dangerfield…

Really tired of all the news, and crap out there, so some humor for Friday…

Why we miss Rodney Dangerfield-

His dryly delivered one liners were hilarious…

My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night she used me to time an egg.

It’s tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won’t drink from my glass!

Last night my wife met me at the front door. She was wearing a sexy negligee. The only trouble was, she was coming home.

A girl phoned me and said, ‘Come on  over. There’s nobody home.’ I went over. Nobody was home!

A hooker once told me she had a headache.

I went to a massage parlor.. It was self-service. ..

If it weren’t for pickpockets, I’d have no sex life at all.

I was  making love to this girl and she started crying I said, ‘Are you going to hate yourself in the morning?’ She said, ‘No, I hate myself now.’

I knew a girl so ugly… they use her in prisons to cure sex offenders.

My wife is such a bad cook, if we leave dental floss in the kitchen the roaches hang themselves.

I’m so ugly I stuck my head out the window and got arrested for mooning.

The other day I came home and a guy was jogging, naked. I asked him, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘Because you came home early.’

My wife’s such a bad cook, the dog begs for Alka-Seltzer.

I know I’m not sexy. When I put my underwear on I can hear the Fruit-of-the- Loom guys giggling.

My wife is such a bad cook, in my house we pray after the  meal.

My wife likes to talk to me during sex; last night she called me from a hotel.

My family was so poor that if I hadn’t been born a boy, I wouldn’t have had anything to play with.

It’s been a rough day. I got up this morning … put a shirt on and a button fell off. I picked up my briefcase, and the handle came off. I’m afraid to go to the  bathroom.

I was such an ugly kid! …When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and radio.

I was such an ugly baby that my mother never breast fed me. She told me that she only liked me as a friend.

I’m so ugly my father carried around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

When I was born, the doctor came into the waiting room and said to my father, “I’m sorry. We did everything we could, but he pulled through anyway.”

I’m so ugly my mother had morning sickness…AFTER I was born.

I remember the time that I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more  proof.

Once when I was lost, I saw a policeman, and asked him to help me find my parents. I said to him, “Do you think we’ll ever find them?” He said, “I don’t know kid. There’s so many places they can hide.”

My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday.

I’m so ugly, I once worked in a pet shop, and people kept asking how big I’d get.

I went to see my doctor. “Doctor, every morning when I get up and I look in the mirror I feel like throwing up. What’s wrong with me?” He said…”Nothing, your eyesight is perfect.”

I went to the doctor because I’d swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. My doctor told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.

With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, “How can I get my kite in the air?” He told me to run off a cliff.

Some dog I got. We call him Egypt because in every room he leaves a pyramid. His favorite bone is in my arm. Last night he went on the paper four times – three of those times I was reading it.

One year they wanted to make me a poster boy – for birth control.

My uncle’s dying wish was to have me sitting in his lap; he was in the electric chair.

One of THOSE mornings…

I’m heading out again, somewhere over the pond… So I’m going to throw PP under the bus…

PP was having one of THOSE mornings…

Her first text-

That moment you blindly stumble to the coffee pot for the first amazing cup…you can already taste it…you pull out the carafe and pour…NOTHING….curse loudly…you stare blankly at the pot u put it back push all the buttons on the pot…check if the is water…yup…check if there is coffee…yup…push more buttons…curse soundly…repeat…curse inventively…repeat…finally admit it’s broken…go back to bed…this must be a nightmare

But it wasn’t, and she had to go on an expanding square search for a coffee pot… Not a backup in the house!

So she goes to the local coffee shop, $5 for two black coffees, but they ONLY take cash (which she doesn’t have), continues on to Wally World and finally gets a coffee pot replacement…

Below Average for headwork there kiddo…  I taught you better!!! 🙂

Another back in the day…

WSF’s comment about Air Force security reminded me of an incident that happened to us back in the day (well, actually TWO incidents)…

Incident One- Back in the 70s we land at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana and they put us on the transient line in front of base ops.  No problem, right???

So we offload the pax and baggage into a crew van the USAF graciously provided.  We walk into base ops to take a leak, get coffee and refile for the next leg of the trip. Still no problem, right???

We go to walk back out to our airplane that is 100 yards from base ops, and the Air Policemen stop us!  These are the SAME two that watched us walk in 30 minutes earlier!!!

The ensuing conversation are words to the effect of what got said…

We don’t have ‘ramp badges’, so we can’t go on the ramp!!!  Of course we go WTF???

Troop back into ops, “Hey your pissants out there won’t let us on the ramp to our airplane. Now what?”

Ops puke, “Oh I’ll call a crew van for you.”

30 minutes later, a van finally shows up.  We pile in, and off we go, only to be stopped AGAIN by the same two twits… Same issue, NO BADGE, NO RAMP.

Back to Ops. Me- “Okay, that didn’t work now what?

OP- “Oh only the command post can authorize a ramp badge.  You’ll need to go over there.”

Me- “The CP that is 2/3 of the way across base?”

OP- “Yep.”

Me- “Lemme borrow a phone.”  Dug in my wheel book for my cousin’s numbers, got one of them and he came down to meet me at Ops.  ‘Splained what was going on, got the eye-roll from him and he agreed to ‘escort’ us to the airplane…

Which lead to a rather interesting confrontation with the twits again, since we were now being escorted by the a full Colonel who also happened to be DO for 2nd Bomb Wing…

But he prevailed after a short radio chat with their security commander…

Gave him the nickel tour of the P-3 and we got the hell outta there, and a fervently hope those APs got their asses handed to them…

Incident 2-

198mumble… Lovely Keflavik, Iceland early spring (snowing like a bitch, with a couple of feet already on the ground)…

Pilot (Maintenance Officer O-5) is doing a walk around, the bird is stuffed back in what is known as the ‘throat’ to keep the Aeroflot ‘airline’ flights from ‘accidentally’ taxiing through our flight line.  Problem was, the ‘tail’ of the bird was over the USAF’s infamous Red Line (which happened to be buried under the snow). Now the pilot is walking around the tail and looking UP at the airplane, not looking at the ground, as soon as he crosses the Red Line, two Air Police tackle him and plant him face down in the snow.  Of course this pisses us off…

But they are determined they have a ‘violation’ and RULES MUST BE OBEYED…

So said pilot gets hauled off…

Fast forward 24 hours…

Senior USAF officer, frothing at the mouth is standing in the Navy Rear Admiral’s office (COMFAIRKEF), complaining about how there has been an ‘incursion’ in the hangar by unauthorized personnel and damage has been done to the ready fighters (F-4s that only flew on day/VFR flights it seemed).  When the RADM question how this guy ‘knew’ the Navy was at fault, the guy apparently slapped a zap (example HERE) on the RADM’s desk and stated they had been placed on both F-4s in multiple places including the windscreen!

Promising to get to the bottom of it, the RADM came down to the CO of the squadron, words were exchanged, all officers meeting was held, no ‘culprit’ was found.  Next day, CO has an all hands on the hangar deck.

Oh did I mention that the Maintenance Officer was WELL LIKED by the troops???

CO asked for the ‘perpetrator or perpetrators’ to come forward, finally one E-4 steps out of ranks and marches to the front.  He salutes the CO, and says words to the effect of I did it sir.  When asked why, he answered because the MO was a good guy and what the APs had done was bulls**t, that he’d seen the whole thing and the APs never even warned the MO…

Which caused a massive coughing spell throughout the hangar, and the CO damn near choking trying not to laugh.

The CO stepped away from the mic and quiet words were exchanged with the E-4, then the CO stepped back to the mic, and ‘punished’ the E-4 by slapping him on the wrist. He was then dismissed, and the formation was over.

CO then reported to the RADM that the miscreant had been duly punished…

And the APs had to double their guards and stand out in the snow for the rest of our deployment after their security officer was fired… 🙂

Willie again…

On the road again…

Light blogging and commenting for a week or so…

Quick update on the book.  Second round of edits are completed, book is out to selected beta readers, and starting to filter back. Working on finalizing the book, cover (thank you Mrs. C), and all the little nit stuff that one has to do.

Turns out ‘writing’ is the easy part… sigh…  Thankfully both the alpha and beta readers have been very good (and pointed in a few cases) with their constructive criticism.  And my editor has been great to work with, offering praise and criticism in pretty much equal (more or less) parts…

Why did carrot and stick just pop into my mind… Anyhoo…

Almost there…

Of course after giving copies to those to contributed by reading, I’m gonna cost my self probably half my sales… LOL

Go read the folks on the sidebar, and thanks again for all your support!

PSA, a repost…

Back in 2010, this was posted about cell phone/digital cameras and the metadata…

Based on what I heard out of BO today…

I think this is worth reposting and reminding folks that you CAN put way too much info out there inadvertently…

Stay safe folks!!!

A Matched Pair…

I got an email from a very nice lady at Saddleback Leather down in Texas, wondering if I’d put up a link to a video they’d done…

Backstory from the nice lady-

 I work for a Texas-based company that makes rugged leather gear. We started doing product videos on our website about 3 years ago and it morphed into some pretty cool projects. One of those projects was short profiles on our employees. The first one was about a husband and wife who work here and their desire to have matching guns, so in case there were ever a crisis they could swap magazines.  (Smith&Wesson M&P9s) 
 
Well, it was submitted to Sundance Film Festival and out of the 8,100 short films, it was selected to be on of the 60 entries. Then YouTube has told us they selected it to be one of the 10 in the running for their special YouTube award. Now we want to put the idea of husband/wife gun ownership in front of as many eyes as possible.

No photographers were harmed in the making of this video… 🙂

That a video with guns and real people even made it to Sundance consideration just warms the cockles of my grouchy old heart…

Go take a look and comment please, let’s PROVE that the stereotypes about us are all wrong!!!

And Saddleback DOES make very nice stuff!!! I just wish I could afford it! 🙁

Oops…

Looks like more problems for the USAF Missile folks-

Sixteen of the 34 officers cheated with answers they received by text message from another missile officer. The other 17 officers knew about the cheating and failed to report it to superiors, Welsh said.

“This is absolutely unacceptable behavior. I am profoundly disappointed,” James said.

James stressed that investigators did not believe that the cheating affected the security or reliability of the nation’s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) fleet.

Now it’s a cheating scandal and OBTW, drugs too…

And these are the people LITERALLY with their hands on the button!

Read the article HERE.

In other news, Gen Dempsey CJCS (who drank the koolaid) is coming under fire on Benghazi…

Gee what a surprise… He’s been toeing the adminstration’s line since he took over…

The Senate Intelligence Committee singled out Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, of exhibiting poor leadership and insufficient planning in their report on the Sept. 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

Read the article HERE.

Bereft of leadership when it’s most needed is a pretty damning statement when you’re talking about the leader of the military in the US…

AND it’s now official USS RONALD REAGAN CVN-76 will replace the GW as the forward deployed carrier in Japan.

Full article HERE.

The crew swap is going to be interesting, especially given the differences between the carriers… It’s one thing to crew swap a small boy, but when you crew swap a carrier; let’s just say ‘I’ am glad that one is NOT one I’m involved with or want anything to do with…

And CVW-5 will stay at Atsugi…  Completing their 40th year of forward deployment in 2013…

Of course the Japanese published this last June… 🙂

And lastly, it appears House and Senate negotiators agreed to a 1 percent pay raise for military personnel, matching the administration’s request (1.8% was the recommended raise). And they included a “fix” to a controversial provision in the budget deal that decreases by 1 percent the cost-of-living adjustment for pensions for working-age military retirees. The omnibus exempts medically retired personnel and survivors from the cut, but appears to LEAVE the cut for ‘healthy’ retirees.

This one isn’t over yet… Not by a long shot…

Snerk…

In two weeks, nearly 22,000 Illinois residents have applied online for a permit to carry a gun, according to the State Police.

About 61,000 have selected an insurance plan through the state’s Obamacare website, according to numbers from the state.

In three months.

Read the whole thing HERE.

If that doesn’t tell ya something, I don’t know what does…

h/t Les

Random Stuff…

I guess the press are SLOW readers, they just got around to the parts in Robert Gates book were Gates hammers the congresscritters…

And it’s WELL deserved…

In particular Harry (spit) Reid…

“With all the major issues we had to deal with, my personal contacts with Senate Majority Leader Reid were often in response to his calls about Air Force objections to construction of a windmill farm in Nevada because of the impact on their radars,” Gates wrote. “He also once contacted me to urge that Defense invest in research on irritable bowel syndrome. With two ongoing wars and all our budget and other issues, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.” 

Read the whole article HERE on Foxnews.com

Personally, I think calling the congress incompetent is sugar coating it a bit, but that’s just me…

And in other news, this is a ‘goody’…

first 2014 baby

The first baby born in Nogales in the New Year was Demian Gallegos Rebiel, whose parents travelled all the way from Queretaro, Mexico.

Demian was born in Carondelet Holy Cross Hospital to Maritza Rebiel Barragan and Jesus Alberto Gallegos Canchola at 8:18 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 2. He weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces and measured 19.5 inches.

Seems legit right?  But the ‘rest of the story’ is that Queretaro, Mexico is 1000 miles from the border!!! They now have their anchor baby! Which means three more on the welfare roles in Nogales, AZ and two illegals that get to stay (the parents)…

From somebody who knows the drill-

That is so wrong, yet has been going on for years:  They hire a cruz rojo ambulance to drive up to the inspection lanes at the Nogales (named after Dennis DeConcini) Port of Entry; apply for emergency admission to the USA, claiming exigent circumstances; the POE inspectors (CBP OFO) then admit them, as a “health & welfare” emergency, allowing them to travel to the local hospital (so much for nationalized medicine in Mexico — they have to drive right past Mexican medical facilities to get to the port of entry).

The ambulance drives up, and literally drops them off at the emergency room front doors of the Nogales Carondolet Holy Cross Hospital, whereupon they give birth to their new U.S. Citizen baby!  What a country! 

In Mexico, they [the hospital] would hold your baby ransom –literally– until you paid for medical expenses, even though Mexico has boasted a nationalized medical program for several decades.  If you happen to be on vacation in Mexico and have to go to the hospital (or have a baby), then you are not released until you pay.  They will happily provide a cruz rojo ambulance to take you to the bank to have the money wired from your U.S. bank; no kidding.

Such reciprocity!  Besides, who really wants to be a Mexican citizen?

And one more, I’m at least ENDING on a positive…

The shooting happened just before 9 p.m. Saturday, when the gunman walked into the Mystic Gentleman’s Club at Southeast Stark Street and Southeast 99th Avenue and opened fire, said Sgt. Pete Simpson with Portland police.

The shooter hit three people, prompting a person in the bar to return fire, hitting and critically injuring the suspect.

/snip

The person who returned fire and hit the suspect was not arrested and was cooperating with police. 

“Portland is a safe city; however, gun violence is pervasive. As we’ve seen elsewhere, it’s really easy for someone with a gun to hurt a lot of people,” said Sgt. Greg Stewart with the Portland Police Bureau.

Read the article HERE.

Sooo… Where’s the national coverage on this in the MSM???

/Crickets/

h/t to Les and JP

PSA for travelers…

Got this one from PP, and it’s worth passing along…

Years ago I got in the habit of getting paper cups from the front desk, because they are usually sealed in plastic, so less chance of their being ‘pre-used’…

Also I never make coffee in the room, because I know that flight attendants have been known to ‘rinse’ their G-strings in the coffee pot…

Honestly I’m surprised this has come around again, there was a big hooraw over this probably 15 years ago.

Another option is to carry your OWN water bottle and use it exclusively…

Just sayin…

h/t PP